Business Analyst - Trade Finance

Position Purpose:

• To function as a Business Analyst for NA BA Team catering to all applications within the trade finance domain.
• To completely manage the implementations with Business and other stakeholders.
• Needs to be involved in the requirements gathering, writing of the business requirements/user stories and functional specifications. Needs to liaise with the development team,

down streams QA, coordinate UAT and be involved in production implementation. Improve operational efficiency and cost savings.

• The candidate must be able to: Clearly understand the client business requirements and provide optimal solutions. Contribute to the analysis and drafting of business requirements and functional specifications, Assist QA team for SIT & business users during UAT cycles. Should be well versed with the SDLC cycle, Agile methodology, quality and release control processes Should have high-level technical know-how to be able to drive technical/security related changes with the IT teams.

Responsibilities Direct Responsibilities

• Writing and Reviewing BRDs, FSDs, User Stories and working closely with Business and operations stakeholders for requirement analysis for Central Trade BA Team.
• Needs to be involved in the gathering of the requirements, writing of the business requirements, functional specifications and GAP analysis for business requirements. Needs to liaise with the development team, QA, coordinate UAT and be involved in production implementation.
• Manage the project SDLC/ Agile governance and QA activities
• Test strategy definition.
• Qualification and User acceptance test tracking including regression. Contributing Responsibilities
• Work closely with internal development, QA, IT security, architecture and other transversal teams.
• Review overall solution to see the best and optimized fit into the applications old and new.
• Work as a team player for topics spanning across projects, teams.
• Responsible for effective effort estimation and costing.
• Support to Users, Development and Qualification teams, Deployment activities (set up parameters for implementation, scheduling process definition, environment management, go live contribution and follow up, analysis of incident raised during Qualification and UAT).
• Would act as functional support for production issues / queries as required.
• Functional and applicative training.
• Functional documentation maintenance Quality conscious and appropriate documentation complying with SDLC standards and agile project management practices.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

• The candidate should have strong functional and Trade Finance and Payment domain skills and excellent communication skills. The job requires domain knowledge as under: 1. Good understanding of Banking domain. 2. In depth knowledge of Trade Finance (Letter of Credit, Documentary Collections, Guarantees). 3. Knowledge of Risk and Compliance related to Banking and Trade Finance. 4. Good understanding of the Trade Finance Swift MT / MX Messages.
• Besides, the following skills are also expected: 1. Clear organization and ability to manage projects 2. Service-oriented attitude and strong commitment to client satisfaction 3. Interpersonal skills, ability to consolidate action plans and report progress status 4. Capable of adapting to a new environment and working under pressure towards tight deadlines 5. Analytical, lateral thinker and result-oriented person 6. Team players demonstrate self-initiative when necessary 7. Excellent verbal and written communication

Specific Qualifications:

• 8-10 years overall BFSI domain
• Candidate with experience of Trade finance products is preferred
• Good Knowledge of Oracle Database (PL/SQL Queries), 3-tier architecture, Web application server, UNIX commands, hands-on PUTTY, WINSCP

Skills Referential (Required knowledge, skills and abilities) Technical Skills:

• Good Knowledge of Oracle Database (PL/SQL Queries)
• In depth knowledge of Trade Finance business (open account, collections, letter of credit, guarantees, financing)
• Knowledge of Risk and Compliance related to Banking and Trade Finance.

Behavioral Skills:

• Analytical, lateral thinker and result-oriented person
• Team players demonstrate self-initiative when necessary
• Excellent verbal and written communication

Education Level: UG : B.Tech/B.E. in Any Specialization or

PG : Any Postgraduate

Location: Mumbai, Bangalore & Chennai